Composers' Forum with Ben Leeds Carson

25. August 2017

COMPOSERS’ FORUM

Guest: Ben Leeds Carson

Time: 4 September 2017, 19:00

Venue: Wesselényi utca 52, Room 018

The Composition Department of the Liszt Academy revives one of its old traditions: bringing together composers and the BA, MA, DLA students of the department on a forum where thoughts about contemporary tendencies and pieces, own compositions and other matters of mutual interest can be shared and discussed.

On 4 September 2017 the tradition is continued with a lecture by Ben Leeds Carson, professor of the University of California Santa Cruz.

[Carson’s] ideas…the establishment and erosion of musical boundaries, the evolution/devolution of melody, and the use of silence as a structural component…take shape in swiftly scurrying flurries, motifs fast or slow…sudden fortes that produce an impact out of proportion with their amplitude. To say that [Persistent Names of Lost Spaces] is too long…would be paraphrasing [Emperor Joseph II] chiding Mozart for writing “too many notes.”